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David Pescovitz at 9:57 am Mon, Sep 24, 2012

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The always-fantastic Treasure Island Music Festival returns to the San Francisco Bay Area on October 13 and 14. The exquisitely-curated line-up includes the likes of Girl Talk, The XX, M83, Joanna Newsom, Public Enemy, Youth Lagoon, Grimes, War On Drugs, and more than a dozen other acts. Our pals at Noise Pop, co-promoters of the event, have provided us a pair of VIP 2-Day Tickets (a $479 value) to give to Boing Boing readers. VIP includes preferred viewing area next to main stage, tented lounge with access to full liquor bar, private restroom facilities (yay!) and access to special VIP food concessions. Here's how to win 'em:

Write a Haiku about your favorite band performing at the festival. Here's the full line-up. The Haiku must consist of three lines, with the first line containing 5 syllables, the second containing 7 syllables, and the third line containing 5 syllables. Then post your Haiku in the comments of this thread. You have until 11:59pm tomorrow (Tuesday, 9/25). On Thursday (9/27), I'll post our three favorites. Those finalists will each receive a Boing Boing t-shirt! On Friday (9/28), I'll announce the winner. Please only one entry per person. Good luck!!!

David Pescovitz is Boing Boing's co-editor/managing partner. He's also a research director at Institute for the Future. On Instagram, he's @pesco.

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  • rekoil

    The Presets’ new “Ghosts”
    A digital sea shanty
    Better than it sounds.

  • rekoil

    Fixed the prior entry. Counting syllables is hard.

  • dr_awkward

    How does a Girl Talk?
    Unstoppable All Day in
    Secret Diaries.

  • Navin_Johnson

    Love that Haysi Fantayzee video!  

  • dfoic

    Though the lead sounds like
    Herbert from Family Guy
    Youth Lagoon rocks out

  • http://www.facebook.com/sharaya.olmeda Sharaya Olmeda

    Flav’s Role in Public Enemy:

    effects of drugs wear
    on powerful messages
    once poignant now dim

  • pfooti

    there are some dragons
    who are built to have and hold
    they sting terribly

    — adapted from Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie by Joanna Newsom

    Woops. Just noticed the date – I’ll be in another state that weekend. Oh well. Leaving the haiku anyway.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=3611164 Stacie Furia

    Rearranging sound
    to become something more than
    before. Now: Girl Talk.

  • http://twitter.com/neboyce neboyce

    The War on Drugs is

    Our Public Enemy one.

    Let’s commence The Coup.

    • http://profile.yahoo.com/ZGMZV7ED56ENBFCJW6LTGFQYYY rat bat blue

      “Ya got ta fight the power…ya got ta fight the powers that be…”

      “This ain’t no party, this ain’t no disco, this ain’t no foolin’ around…”

      “I bought it, so I’ll bluddy well boot it!”

  • mbarnsdale

    The XX… Awesome
    Native San Fran, my birthplace
    XX and home? Sweet!

  • http://twitter.com/obeezyjay James Oborne

    Not pirate’s booty
    Grimey Girl Talk electro
    Get some at T.I.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1057260103 Desiree Cook

    Gossiping Girl Talk

    SBTRKT-ING my love for yours

    On the Best Coast dear.

  • http://www.facebook.com/grant.christopherson Grant Christopherson

    Landfill, Music, Mayhem
    Escape from the daily grind
    Joy blankets the crowd

  • http://www.facebook.com/ronny.kerr Ronny Kerr

    in the treasured fog,
    mr. bleak black city beams
    me dear techno dreams.

    much love to Matthew Dear and the best-placed music festival in the bay :)

  • http://twitter.com/joseph_arruda joseph arruda

    Sounds from the island
    makes the joy rise like the tides
     I am full of beer

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=605218859 Ryan Flynn

    Oh Toro y Moi
    Lollapalooza we met
    Please let me love you again

  • http://twitter.com/black_lite Keri-Ann Oddman

    Porter robinson

    Twenty year old prodigy

    First class Electro 

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000458266965 Paul Atwood

    Fits of the Divine
    Furriest Handsome Wolf Spoon
    Britt Dan Sam, Goddamn!

  • http://www.facebook.com/j.espinosa0 Jonathan Espinosa

    he wears tribal masks.
    live percussion, he performs
    pharaohs and wildfire

    -sbtrkt

  • http://twitter.com/RayRo15 rachel rosenson

    At this island Fest
    The music is the treasure
    Shitting bricks excited

  • Gonzalo Ferreyra

    Minnie Mouse’s voice,
    a visit to the future:
    Listening to Grimes

  • idb1204

    Dance party All Day
    Girl Talk keeps our feet moving
    Never stop the fun

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=651115566 Daniel Rekshan

    Joanna Newsome’s
    name is five syllables, but
    music is infinity.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=11517554 Ben Cornell

    M83 with
    a beautiful bay backdrop
    probably won’t suck.

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=11517554 Ben Cornell

      ^ me.

  • http://twitter.com/Aimal Aimal

    French guy with bombast
    Lately fond of saxophone
    Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming

  • cooter

    vancouver’s grimes, whose
    sister says the saddest things,
    lived on the river

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=11517554 Ben Cornell

    btw, that was me, not sure why it doesn’t show my name.

  • http://www.facebook.com/SmurfaLurf Darren Murphy

    The awesome Presets,
    An electro duo set,
    They’ll soak you in sweat.

  • http://twitter.com/357Jesse JS

    we let music live
    wander through the XX sin
    let the best sex win

  • Alwyslet

    Girl talking, wild, pow!
    Jumping, screaming, fun times, wow!
    Treasure island now!

  • jaxxy1979

    Listen when the Girl Talks
    Mashing the hip hop and soul
    She’ll make you dance hard

  • http://twitter.com/JoshuaEspinosa JoshuaEspinosa

    sounds like a whisper
    electronic drums, brooding
    it goes on and on
    - the xx

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1454797833 Ragnar Egilsson

    Crab, Cockle, Cowrie
    Peach, plum, pear – wish I was there
    You win some -  Newsom

  • yves

    Dancing on my own
    no more – here is a whole crowd
    for Toro y Moi

  • http://www.facebook.com/therealdanbowen Dan Bowen

    Counting syllables
    Should I write M Eighty Three
    or spell M 8 3?

  • anica

    Music to my ears
    In the bay my favorites play
    Youth Lagoon lets swim 

  • NeemaRahimi

    no contact info on this profile – see new post with contactable profile

  • neema29

    Contains allusions to my favorite band ever, M83.

    Fuzzy synths aglow
    hurry up, we are dreaming
    of where the boats go

  • http://twitter.com/heyitsjamhands Abigail

    Two six point two miles
    in the morning, but at night
    Los Campesinos!

  • mrambulancedriver

    How to describe Grimes:
    Canadian Space Mermaid,
    A Cyborg Banshee!

  • erin murray

    Beth Ditto can wail!
    That girl’s voice makes my toes curl.
    Gossip, you got it. 

  • Justin Caffier

    I can’t explain why

    Grimes makes me think of Rugrats.
    That’s not a complaint.

  • tahoeskier

    When I get homesick
    BEST COAST always takes me to
    CALIFORNIA

  • bobcorrigan

    Alas, I am old,
    and I know none of the bands
    appearing there.  Sigh.

  • http://www.facebook.com/dreadedphoto Isaac Solomon

    I’m about to win. 
    A haiku writing contest?
    I was born for this. 

  • laemro58

    Treasure of music
    Tremendous view of beauty
    Magical moments

  • Gabriel Rooney

    Matthew Dear is there
    do I really call him that?
    ‘cuz I’m not his mom

  • http://avaaz.org/ Brant Olson

    capitalist pigs
    concede power to no one
    except Boots Riley

  • hypersomniac

    for joanna:

    milk-eyed sirens’ call
    harp sung somber tones
    echo the ocean

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=781802224 Marty Blanket Ingels II

      you should listen to
      Harpsicorpse’s album “Suite For
      Harpsichord”. FROSTY.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=781802224 Marty Blanket Ingels II

    It’s ironic that
    P.E. should play Treasure Isle,
    not Alcatraz, no?

  • http://www.facebook.com/dreadedphoto Isaac Solomon

    Subtract the vowels,

    from the word “subtract” spelled wrong,

    SBTRKT’s the result.

  • http://www.facebook.com/heelepner Lee Hepner

    A drum resonates
    from beyond the youth lagoon
    toward the sunset.

  • http://www.facebook.com/heelepner Lee Hepner

    A drum resonates
    from beyond the youth lagoon
    toward the sunset.

  • Ryan Thalken

    Stay inside your head
    Ty Segall is home again 
    Making the grass grow 

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=3200031 Jon Uniql D’souza

    Ditto spins a phrase
    M83 swirls icy blue luster
    Newsom harps on it

    -JD

  • catherine le

    Oh I’ve been waiting 
    Desperately. And my heart
     is here, Grimes, off-beat.

    (homage to Grimes’ song Vanessa)

  • akatoncesaid

    SBTRKT, GirlTalk, Grimes.

    It will make my Ex jealous.

    Help me break his heart. 

  • vibrotronica

    Public Enemy, 1988

    Terminator X
    Was a member of the group.
    Don’t believe the hype!

  • stephanie c

    one hundred percent
    his language fills me with love
    dare i say his name?

    -stephanie for porter robinson

  • http://www.facebook.com/ArcticSound Hai Trinh

    Though the city glooms
    M Eighty Three shines the way
    The Bay surrounds us

  • stephanie c

    one hundred percent
    his language fills me with love
    dare i say his name?

    (sorry for the accidental double post! i don’t know why my name isn’t showing up next to it… =)

  • supermaxy

    Biomedical
    cramming hundreds of samples
    illegal art form

  • http://profiles.google.com/argalite Richard Smith

    Grimes is on my my screen
    My birthday is that weekend
    I hope to go there

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1353050764 Kelly Pratt

    Gossip, jealous girls
    Girl talk will help let it out
    Grimes beast infection

  • powerofslack

    Free your brainwashed mind
    To fight the powers that be
    Chuck D sees the fnords

  • johneevee

    sbtrkt u from me
    at t i fest we will be
    public enemies

  • minorfires

    Ostrich farm – worth it?
    They’re just not the same without
    Terminator X

  • doughbro47

    Los Campesinos!
    A British Twee/Hardcore band?
    Their songs break my heart.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=764151858 Jerome Kainoahemolele Tabar

    Long Island critics
    rap metal never pauses;
    the tour that happened.

  • http://twitter.com/ImWithDove Kyle Dovenbarger

    Dictaphone’s Lament
    a night drive, the smell of rain
    Tycho ebb & flow

  • DJ DIAPERZ

    Quell not Divine Fits!
    Protracted rhythms thicken;
    Rainbows spill from eyes.

  • jimmykinkade

    Do you need a permit for a concert like this?

  • branng

    (yoo hoo! I yoo hoo!)
    Treasure Island waking dream:
    Imperial Teen

  • http://www.facebook.com/jeff.mailes Jeff Mailes

    Together we dance,
    renewing beats from the past.
    Girl Talk brings it back!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=33204751 Joseph James Ording III

    Girl Talk makes me dance
    Spasming and convulsing
    Strange looks at the gym

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1003302723 Anne Allison

    Music and dancing,
    maybe some radiation. . .
    Thanks Treasure Island!

  • Nicole Cassese

    Cut. Crystal. Watch Me
    XX distress repress fold
    Undone now made whole.

  • http://twitter.com/Russellwalks Russell Walks

    Love the Double X
    He says, staring at her shirt.
    Man, she hates liars.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=750806207 Jason Luz

    Plucking bridge cables,
    she transmorgifies ocean
    air as she warbles.

  • popsicklestar

    They need no vowels.
    subdued, special sort of math,
    soft sounds of SBTRKT

  • Rachel Visalda

    gold chain: love is hard.
    steve jobs’ turtleneck sweater:
    black, just like their hearts

    - for the xx

  • http://twitter.com/BaggerMcGuirk Patrick Casey

    Young ladies converse
    An avalanche of samples
    No license in sight

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1007811994 Large Mammal

    jism filled bullet
    shot by former sex-pistol
    rotten now lydon

  • http://twitter.com/shutupgohomeJan jan fisico

    hippie hippie scene 
    music fills up in my dreams
    fulfill with tickets

  • timmayer

    Highway swimming in
    The kingdom of midnight skin
    And our endless youth 

    -for M83

  • http://twitter.com/TheAstronomist Alexander B Fry

    Echos trespassing
    go in me crystalline too
    far a solitude

  • lalalalaur

    My Heart Skipped a Beat

    When The XX Melody

    Captivated Me

  • p9ooo

    haiku for the coup
    the kickstart’d bus is new
    bringing boots to you

  • timmayer

    Highway swimming in
    The kingdom of midnight skin
    And our endless youth

    -for M83

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Anders-Arson/100000502507958 Anders Arson

    A five hour drive
    From Humboldt to Treasure Isle
    Music worth the time.

  • spalko

    Public Enemy
    is tougher and blacker than
    Folsom Street leather

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1373492200 Brian Brady

    I just want to go!!!
    Chuck D and M83??
    French for f’shizzle?!

  • grapegatorade

    Pirate named ‘Girl Talk’
    takes the stage and steals all the
    Treasure Isle booty

  • Andrew Brian Farris

    Public Enemy
    Never said Fuck the Police
    But Sting cries anyway

    • Andrew Brian Farris

      Dang, I wasn’t logged in. Am now. Hurray!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=625680404 Vincent V-Train Trinh

    As “XX” once said
    “Light reflects from your shadow”
    Music binds lovers’ souls

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=625680404 Vincent V-Train Trinh

    As “XX” once said
    “Light reflects from your shadow”
    Music binds lovers’ souls

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=500726138 Patrick Roach

    Haunting guitar riffs
    Touch something deep inside me
    They are The XX

  • http://www.facebook.com/ieatlegos Blake Lowe

    Joanna Newsom
    I cry when I hear your voice
    Please break up with me?

  • http://www.facebook.com/ieatlegos Blake Lowe

    I didn’t read the directions properly…

  • http://www.facebook.com/ieatlegos Blake Lowe

    …and couldn’t figure out how to delete my entries.

  • terry childers

    Public Enemy
    Night of the Living Baseheads
    I’m talkin’ ’bout BASS!

  • Joseph V

    the youth lagoon song
    used in that skype commercial
    saved me in prison

  • terry childers

     The XX- great band
    a constant reminder that
    looks ain’t everything

  • joygunlore

    My ex got into
    XX. Oh, we didn’t last.
    Lo, XO no mo’.

  • deepcut

    To Beth of Gossip,
    No ticket, and no worries
    Your voice spans the bay

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1705640126 Teddy Wu

    M83 will start
    When Midnight strikes the City
    Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming

  • entropia

    Feminine chatter
    it’s not; we will shake it to
    Gossip and Girl Talk

  • ridinagrvytrain

    XX: My Soundtrack
    to stoned lawn meanderings
    sight line? Unlikely

  • daemonsquire

    araabMUZIK makes
    me aware I could better
    control my twitching.

  • monmatmildew

    I puked all over
    Ty Segal’s tour van once
    Not a proud day. Nope.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/P5EPU63CBKYTPIGZLHI2REJRGA Richard

    October thirteenth
    Treasure Island with Grimes and…
    My birthday weekend

  • AIMendez

    I Hear Matthew Dear
    The Fear is here within us
    Quick! Get me a beer!

  • AIMendez

    i think i tried to rhyme too hard,

  • whiskey93

    transcendent gallic

    pop. classic hip hop. perhaps

    the scent of the sea?

  • http://www.facebook.com/vernotico Ruth Vernotico

    Grimes is so cray cray

    she smokin’ weed and tweeting

    did video high

  • grapegatorade

    A clock-necked jester
    joins perennial Chuck D
    shouting rhyme and truth

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/R33TY7H2TGTD6T3UV3UIWY5UUU mtzbinden

    T.I. is my pie
    For P.E. I just might cry
    So pray to the sky

  • Ari Frink

    Joanna “Toothsome”
    Your face on my retainer
    Relic from high school

  • Ari Frink

    If I win, I will post a picture of my retainer with J-New’s face on it! I’ll even wear it to Treasure Island!

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/ZGMZV7ED56ENBFCJW6LTGFQYYY rat bat blue

     This coup ain’t for chickens or pigeons either. Let’s roll.

  • http://www.facebook.com/youhippy Jason James O’Leary

    Los Campesinos!
    No sign of you in London
    San Fran here we come!

  • http://www.facebook.com/youhippy Jason James O’Leary

    Me and my friend are actually coming over to San Francisco from London while this festival is on! Would be amazing!

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/ZGMZV7ED56ENBFCJW6LTGFQYYY rat bat blue

     See post further downpage. It belongs here with us, Karras…exorcise time.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000369272115 Janette Sylvian

    My heart is beating
    Anticipating xx
    Let me hear them play

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/ZGMZV7ED56ENBFCJW6LTGFQYYY rat bat blue

    umm, both these ‘posts’ are actually replies to neboyce uppage. I hate being fucked with.

  • http://www.facebook.com/scottie.l.meyers Scottie Lee Meyers

    I do not prefer
    East or West, It’s Wisconsin’s
    COASTline I like BEST

  • Mike Zardozian

    a magical voice
    beautiful space synths and beats
    grimes has a cute lisp

  • http://www.standbyformindcontrol.com/ Sean M.

    Life is bittersweet
    Feel the pulse, the New York streets
    Hospitality

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=672801775 Chris Booda Reguilon

    Yo Bum Rush the Show
    Chuck D and Flavor Flav will
    Bring the noise BOY-EE

  • Keisar Betancourt

    once upon a time
    a new east bay resident
    won some cool tickets

  • MichaelP

    Grimes makes us music,
    Makes us dance, makes us happy,
    Makes us… “pussy rings”?

  • jave

    telekinetics
    escape control, set the sun
    defeat the wheelchair

  • http://twitter.com/TionTunes TionTunes

    Public Enemy
    it demands tickets quickly
    to San Francisco

  • penguinchris

    mark f’s daughter did
    interview best coast a while
    back on boingboing, yay

  • oxenhandler

    It Takes a Nation
    came out when i was thirteen
    i wore black a lot

  • http://www.facebook.com/vincent.trinh.988 Vi Son T

    Wind kisses our ears
    As the heaven sky opens
    Sounds of Youth Lagoon

  • http://www.facebook.com/natesayer Nathaniel Kerksick

    Green and sunset pink
    Machine sounds of the jungle
    It must be SBTRKT

  • http://www.facebook.com/natesayer Nathaniel Kerksick

    California muse
    Enchant this treasured island
    And have one on me

  • ashley peters

    wild hands spin wild notes
    harp-made dreamscapes fill my brain
    visions, joanna

  • http://twitter.com/ianmillerdesign Ian Miller

    Island in the bay
    Best Coast rocks my west coast
    dance pants lost in time

  • coreyb83

    araabMuzik makes
    My A.D.H.D. jitters
    look like sweet dance moves

  • new dimensions

    Airy dream pop for

    post-modern, Internet age?

    Must be Grimes on stage.

  • lolokerrigan

    We play in sound waves
    created by the Best Coast
    along the best coast.

  • http://www.facebook.com/lathbury Donald Lathbury

    Heavenly strings sing
    Treasured Cali hymns praising 
    Joanna Newsom

  • http://www.facebook.com/tyrfenrir James Francis O’Claire

    M manufactured
    8 nostalgic school moments
    3 worth remembering

  • branduhly

    anonymity
    behind the mask and the name
    sbtrk all but music

  • gin78

    The sun shines on Grimes
    At Treasure Island. Two Brits,
    With no ticks, sad face

  • http://twitter.com/celestial0ne Per Ardua Ad Astra

    I like festivals
    San Francisco sounds quite rad
    Give me your tickets

  • Carol Chappell

    Treasure Island fey
    Joanna Newsom plucking
    Harp strings, my heart sings

  • Adam Schwartz

    Don’t make me decide
    What a great lineup this year.
    Hello Vee Eye Pee

  • http://twitter.com/caahlaay crusty crale

    on why joanna newsom is so goddamn alluring:

    Armani? My ass!
    It’s your voice, your voice. YOUR VOICE!
    Ok, and your eyes.

  • theflesh

    araabMUZIK plays
    close my eyes and drift away
    clouds make comfy homes

  • Skylight Studios

    and so iT seems, you  
    line the Isles with k flay dreaMs
    Feast our ears with two

  • bbonyhadi

    I blow two kisses,
    Sounds shift, they miss – hitting where
    The xx were were

  • bbonyhadi

    Ugh, too many good artists – I’ve started calling this the BoingBoing cleverness conundrum.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=644605073 Stacy Smith

    Ethereal sounds
    Bathed in the languishing light
    Rapt oblivion

    //Grimes//

  • bbonyhadi

    Argh, my partner tries
    To post, but Disqus will not
    Let him log me out.

  • bbonyhadi

    Argh, my partner tries
    To post, but Disqus will not
    Let him log me out.

  • mandelben

    Are ears the door, then?
    Closed my eyes, but Dirty Ghosts
    Haunt this tarnished soul.

  • roid

    This is just one guy
    Amazing layered mixes
    Happy listening

  • Ambrose Colombo

    My favorite isle,
    Gave me the Girl and The Sea,
    City Skyline, wow!

    Asked this girl I had a crush on, out on a date following the Flaming Lips in ’09, and we’ve been together since! 

  • http://twitter.com/skwaq Nat Kramer

    For Joanna Newsom–

    Bleed my living heart!
    Yr sickle cleaves this moment-
    How sweet the harvest.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=715011057 Anthony Ackshawn Catanzaro

    “What It’s All About”

    The Michael/Queen Crescendo,

    Girl Talk’s masterpiece.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1655995083 Fair Yolkai

    the best valentines
    after all the these years with you
    was xx in bed

  • Adam Gilgoff

    her neck, my lips, we
    tangle. the xx play, blown
    by the bay’s fall winds

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=678714728 Brian Hoeber

    Public Enemy
    Still brings the noise something fierce,
    Don’t believe the hype.

  • sawdust23

    projecting sweetly 
    a rarity in gingham
    tears at our heartstrings